Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan on Monday dragged in political war as Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav appealed him to “not advertise for the donkeys of Gujarat”.The comment was The comment was scathing attack on PM’s remark which he made during election rally on Sunday. “If a village has a[Read More…]
Tag: Samajwadi Party
SP is a protector of rapists: Smriti Irani
Mulayam Singh Yadav addresses first rally, seeks votes for brother Shivpal Yadav
Samajwadi Party (SP) supremo, Mulayam Singh Yadav on Saturday addressed his first rally where he sought votes for brother Shivpal, saying the election is important for both of them. Mulayam, who was removed as party president with his son Akhilesh Yadav taking over the reins just before the polls following[Read More…]
UP Polls: 63% cast vote; Rs 20 crore, 4.44L liquor seized, says EC
Sixty-three per cent voters exercised their franchise in 73 assembly constituencies in the first of the seven-phase UP polls on Saturday, the Election Commission said.Barring an incident of Barring an incident of voter-slip snatching and clashes among supporters of rival parties at Baghpat, polling was peaceful.The turnout was estimated at[Read More…]
Time to reverse caste-driven politics: Modi in UP
Taking a dig at UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday charged him with presiding over chaos and lawlessness in the state in the past five years. Addressing a gathering in Budayun, a Yadav stronghold, the Prime Minister said time has come to reverse the caste[Read More…]
30 % votes polled till noon in UP
Mulayam’s first election rally on Saturday
Immense pressure on me to Join SP: Parteek
I have Netaji’s blessing: Akhilesh Yadav
Mulayam Singh Yadav refuses to campaign for the SP-Congress alliance
As UP CM Akhilesh Yadav and Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi flaunted the SP-Congress alliance addressing a road show in Lucknow, Samajwadi Party patriarch and Akhilesh Yadav’s father Mulayam Singh Yadav disregarded the tie-up and refused to campaign for the new political set-up. According to NDTV reports, Mulayam said SP was[Read More…]
UP Polls: Alliance will be the answer to people who made nation stand in queues, says Akhilesh
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi and Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav jointly addressed a press conference at 1 pm on Sunday after which they will take out a road show in the state. The roadshow will begin from the GPO Park and will go through the Mayfair roundabout to Lalbagh,[Read More…]
UP Polls: Akhilesh, Rahul to address first joint presser on Sunday
UP Chief Minister and SP chief Akhilesh Yadav and Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi will jointly address the first press conference after the alliance in Lucknow on Sunday. “The time and venue of the media interaction is yet to be finalised,” a senior SP leader told reporters on Friday. The[Read More…]
UP Polls: Priyanka Gandhi seals SP-Cong alliance
Priyanka Gandhi gains attention after the congress leaders openly lauded her role in clinching alliance with Samajwadi Party for UP Polls. Priyanka was often spoken of in party circles as managing the back-end operations of brother Rahul’s political office and overseeing affairs in the home boroughs of Amethi and Rae[Read More…]
UP Polls: SP-Congress alliance sealed, Congress gets 105 seats
The alliance between the Congress partyand Samajwadi party for the upcoming Assembly polls in UP has been sealed on Sunday. Congress party will contest from 105 seats,while SP would contest for 298 seats. UPchief minister Akhilesh Yadav will release the Samajwadi party election manifesto on Sunday. Stating the discussion between[Read More…]
UP Polls: SP fields candidates in Congress seats; alliance in trouble
Adding trouble over the grand alliance, Samajwadi Party on Friday released the list of 191 candidates for the first three phases of elections. Interestingly, the list included SP candidates on eight seats where Congress has sitting MLAs. According to reports, SP has fielded candidates in sitting seats of Congress that[Read More…]
UP Polls: RLD rules out of grand alliance, Akhilesh offers 103 seats to Congress
Amidst the ongoing feud within the Uttar Pradesh’s first family, Samajwadi Party leader and UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav and the Congress party confirmed that they would announce the pre-poll alliance in the next 24 hours. According to sources, Akhilesh offered 103 seats to the grand old party. 20 candidates[Read More…]
UP Polls: Congress may announce Brahmin deputy CM
Aiming at the majority vote bank in electorally important Uttar Pradesh, Congress party may announce its deputy chief ministerial candidate who in all likelihood will be a ‘Brahmin’. Sources said that the grand old party is considering the names of Former State Minister Jitin Prasada, Former Varanasi MP Rajesh Kumar[Read More…]
SP feud: EC allots ‘cycle’ symbol to Akhilesh-led faction
The Election Commission on Monday granted the ‘cycle’ symbol to Samajwadi Party leader and Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav. Earlier, both factions in the Samajwadi Party, one led by Mulayam Singh and the other by son and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, have staked their claim over the[Read More…]
Mulayam Singh Yadav to accept EC’s decision
While the Election commission’s decision is yet to be announced; In a dramatic twist to the Samajawadi Party saga, family partriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav, on Monday said he will accept whatever decision the Election Commission takes on the contentious poll symbol issue. The commission is to announce its decision today.[Read More…]
UP election: Rahul, Akhilesh will launch a joint SP-Congress campaign
With UP all set to undergo Assembly polls from February 11 to March 8, Congres and Samajwadi Party appear to have agreed to launch a joint election campaign in the state. According to a Times of India report, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi will lead the election campaign along with[Read More…]
Akhilesh will be the next CM, party stands united: Mulayam Singh Yadav
Hours after softening his rift with Akhilesh, Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav on Monday said that the party was united and Akhilesh Yadav would be the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh after the elections. “For the benefit of the entire state, our party stands united. There is no question[Read More…]
UP Polls: Akhilesh gets huge support of SP MLAs
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday met loyalist party MLAs in Lucknow and collected signed affidavits declaring him the president of Samajwadi Party. Out of the 209 MLAs, 206 MLAs and 55 MLCs flocked to Akhilesh’s official residence at 5, Kalidas Marg, and submitted their signed affidavits to[Read More…]
SP, BSP say Modi hatao, I say corruption hatao: PM Modi
Taking dig at SP and BSP, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said that the after years of rivalry both parties were united against me. “Have you ever seen both SP and BSP united over anything? No. They are never united. But they, in one voice, are united against[Read More…]
SP feud: National executive elects Akhilesh Yadav as working president
Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav was “unanimously” declared as the Samajwadi Party’s national working president in a resolution passed by party Secretary General Ram Gopal Yadav at the national executive meet in Lucknow. Ram Gopal Yadav, said that the national executive also wanted Shivpal Yadav to be removed as[Read More…]
UP Polls: SP Chief rules out alliance with any party, declares 325 candidates
Ignoring objections raised by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and his son, SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav on Wednesday announced candidates for 325 of the 403 Assembly seats and ruled out alliance with any party for the upcoming polls. In a press conference here, the SP patriarch released the list of[Read More…]